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John McCarthy is Dead

Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2011 4:56 pm
by wtetzner
Man, this is turning out to be a bad month.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCarthy_(computer_scientist)

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Re: John McCarthy is Dead

Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2011 5:11 pm
by dandymcgee
Just heard about this. The afterlife has gotten a major technological upgrade in the past month. May they all program in peace, free from the constraints of requirement docs and deadlines.

Re: John McCarthy is Dead

Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2011 7:04 pm
by Trask
There is some SERIOUS hacking going on in the afterlife. Watch the fuck out.

Re: John McCarthy is Dead

Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2011 7:38 pm
by Falco Girgis
I REALLY hope these guys were all atheists. I can't WAIT to go to hell and join the greatest minds of our age... :)

Re: John McCarthy is Dead

Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2011 12:36 am
by BugInTheSYS
Lucky Bill Gates.^^

Re: John McCarthy is Dead

Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2011 12:51 am
by treyrust
Damn...

I looked at his wikipedia page right after I found out Dennis Ritchie died, and I felt kinda good knowing he was still around...

I guess it's the beginning of the end of the lives of the early pioneers of modern computing. I am very great-full that they have contributed so much to all our lives.

Where was that joke about God making a new version of earth and he's recruiting programmers/computer pioneers or something like that?

Re: John McCarthy is Dead

Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2011 5:11 am
by LeonBlade
It IS a bad month... all these legends passing. :cry:
GyroVorbis wrote:I REALLY hope these guys were all atheists. I can't WAIT to go to hell and join the greatest minds of our age... :)
Logically thinking minds, I think you can guess what their religious standpoints might be. ;) :lol:
Trask wrote:There is some SERIOUS hacking going on in the afterlife. Watch the fuck out.
Who knows what kind of work is going on down there... up there? :lol:
BugInTheSYS wrote:Lucky Bill Gates.^^
I'm pretty sure Bill Gates is a robot. :roll:

Re: John McCarthy is Dead

Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2011 3:02 pm
by GroundUpEngine
GyroVorbis wrote:I REALLY hope these guys were all atheists. I can't WAIT to go to hell and join the greatest minds of our age... :)
:lol: !

Re: John McCarthy is Dead

Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2011 9:44 pm
by Benjamin100
This is just getting creepy now.

Re: John McCarthy is Dead

Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2011 9:45 pm
by Benjamin100
What are the chances of all these people dying one after another?

Re: John McCarthy is Dead

Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2011 7:20 pm
by DeltaFolee
treyrust wrote:Damn...

I looked at his wikipedia page right after I found out Dennis Ritchie died, and I felt kinda good knowing he was still around...

I guess it's the beginning of the end of the lives of the early pioneers of modern computing. I am very great-full that they have contributed so much to all our lives.

Where was that joke about God making a new version of earth and he's recruiting programmers/computer pioneers or something like that?
Aha! So you looked at his wikipedia page after Dennis Ritchie died... so whose page did you look at after McCarthy died? Whoever it is, THEY'RE NEXT